"So, you just pour extra batter in so that the cake rises above the pan and then you take a long bread knife and you just slice the extra stuff right off and oh yeah, make sure you spray enough cooking spray on there and here are a couple of extra round tins so you can make it a four layer one if you want," said my friend enthusiastically.
"Oh, great! This is going to look so great and be so easy and be enough cake for 85 people," I responded with equal enthusiasm.
FALSE.
Has anyone else ever made one of these stacking cakes or sheet cakes or whatever it is that you call these stupid cakes? Well, I decided to have my first go at it on the day of my sons first birthday party!!! Oh yeah, and did I mention that there would be about 85 people attending???
To top it all off, the power went out the night I baked the cakes...John and I are in the kitchen with a lantern, scraping chunks of cake of the bottom of the pans and "piecing" them back together. And then we had to do it all over again with the second layer. I literally had to patch massive cracks with blobs of icing, all the while fighting off the army of ants who were quickley surrounding my sad excuse for a birthday cake.
Oh wells...the end result was AMAZINGLY passable.
Amazing what you can accomplish with a little frosting and extra sprinkles. Yeah- layer cakes are never easy- I've never had one not crack on. I think you get HUGE points for even attempting cake for 85 people. Here's a tip for ants: fill a bowl (or two, or three, or four for such a large creation) with water. put cup upside down in bowl, rest cake platter on cup. Now the ants will have to learn to swim if they want your cake.
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